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Quotes About Friendship

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.
~ Pope Francis
When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.
~ Patch Adams
In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best friend, watching, and smiling, and wishing he had a mouth.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.
~ Hubert Van Zeller
Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but converse and communion with Him.
~ John Owen
God has lots of children in the church today; I'm honestly not sure He has many friends.
~ Mike Pilavachi
I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends
~ Neal A. Maxwell
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
~ Arnold Bennett
I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.
~ Charles Barkley
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
~ Teresa of Avila
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
~ Thomas Browne
When you've got God, you got a friend. And that friend is you.
~ Matthew McConaughey
What God cares about most is that we are His friends.
~ Pope Francis
I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.
~ Tony Kushner
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
~ Gertrude Stein
Heaven for climate, Hell for company.
~ James M. Barrie
The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened.
~ Josef Pieper
Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing.
~ Julia Cameron
Oh God, friend breakups are the worst. The worst! And I've been through it. Basically, if you're over the age of 5, you've been through friend breakups.
~ Melissa Rivers
It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.
~ Nicky Gumbel
This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.
~ Saint Augustine
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
~ Alexander Pope
A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.
~ Robert South